Here are a couple reasons why Republicans fear 'marihuana'

[TexasTowelie]

Harley Wood as party girl Burma “Blondie” Roberts is high on “giggle weed” in the 1936 exploitation film Marihuana.


Are you wondering why our 19th century Republican legislators in both Minnesota and Wisconsin refuse to recognize the majority of their constituents who want legal marijuana?

I can refer you to a couple of old movies that sum up their fears. Yes, fears. So much of the Republican agenda is fear-based, particularly their fear of marijuana.

Most everyone has seen or at least knows about the propaganda film Reefer Madness, made in 1936 during the reign of bizarre drug czar Harry J. Anslinger, whose mission it was to criminalize marijuana because, as he once said, “The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.​”

This is the guy who started spreading the myths about marijuana that our antebellum Republican legislators still spread to this day, the biggest lie of which is that marijuana is a gateway drug leading to cocaine and heroin use.

Read more: https://duluthreader.com/articles/2021/05/26/118423-here-are-a-couple-reasons-why-republicans-fear

[oasis]

1. Interesting bit of film history/propaganda on the subject. nt

[Bluethroughu]

2. I think it's more about $$$$

from the prison industrial complex. Once someone has a record, it's a pipeline to prison and money for private investors. The USA has the largest incarceration rate in the world.

[MatthewG.]

3. Republicans are scared of social changes

Republicans are basically scared of social changes.

Stopping social change for its own sake is, after securing deficit-fueled tax cuts, probably the most important item on the GOP agenda.

If all else fails, the Republican argument against any proposed social shift will always reduce down to a pathetic “this endangers CHILDREN, do you hear me, CHILDREN!!”

[brewens]

4. I call it the eat shit factor. It's a big middle finger right in the face of exactly the kind of

inbred rednecks that would have wanted me fired if they knew I smoked weed as a younger guy. Of course they were usually alcohol junkies that showed up hungover on their asses. This was at a Budweiser distributor.

If legalized, when the sky doesn't fall, it shows how full of shit they have been all along. That's what they are frightened of.

[The Wizard]

5. Criminalizing hemp was the

brainchild of William Randolph Hurst as hemp threatened his monopoly on wood based newsprint. Hemp was Hurst's only competitor, and Hurst used his media empire to rail against hemp. This led to the destruction of millions of innocent victims' lives and the negative effects on their families. It's always about the money.

[mitch96]

6. "threatened his monopoly on wood based newsprint." And Anslinger was the guy to do it..

He was Mr Prohibition and when the liquor laws were repealed he did not have much of a job left,.
So being the anti MJ guy was right up his ally..Before Hurst and Anslinger MJ was no big deal..YMMV
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[The Wizard]

7. Anslinger and Hurst

were primarily concerned with their income. They set the wheels in motion to destroy innocent lives. and the did it for money. It's not a gateway, but rather an exit ramp from opiates . It's also a very effective remedy for PTSD with few side effects.
Big Pharma's ability to bribe law makers is seriously impinged by legal cannabis.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Thank you for saving me the time to look it up. It was all about $$

[Phoenix61]

10. This! Amazing how many people don't know this.

Super happy hemp is now legal. It’s a great crop and has so many uses.

[Chainfire]

9. I think that is as much about control as anything

Republicans claim to be all about personal freedoms, but in fact they mean freedom to force you to do what they think is right.